Foujita in Mexico: An Episode of Cooperation and Patronage, and a Portrait by Modigliani.

Abstract

In 1933 Tsuguharu Foujita traveled to Mexico settling in the capital for almost a year. This stay influenced the formal and thematic evolution of his artistic production with consequences of great interest for artistic exchange and collectors of the between wars period. Also during his stay he served as liaison between Louis Eychenne, a Mexican collector of the first half of the twentieth century, and artists of the School of Paris. The collector bought his work  and organized two exhibitions of drawings in Mexico City, provided him with some success and some sales. Foujita, in exchange, acted as intermediary in the purchase of some paintings, as was the case with La Patronne by Amedeo Modigliani. It is a little known Mexican episode. Some unpublished photographs and drawings included.